this is the news live from berlin the u.s. senate gives the go ahead for donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial his lawyer said it's unconstitutional to impeach a former president but democrats insist he's guilty of inciting the storming of congress last month is also coming up international condemnation grows as myanmar's military tightens its own power and writes the party headquarters of detained leader aung san suu kyi protesters take to the streets for a 5th straight day. visit the fresh sea breeze all the way known northern

german discipline we'll find out how this baltic city is bucking the trend in keeping with 19 a bad. time in sports we hear from an athlete who paid a price for taking a stab. wanted to be a voice for change in the country but also the government to censor a firm signal against. come to the show in the united states senators have voted to proceed with a full impeachment trial against donald trump the senate was divided largely along party lines and backing the democrats' argument that the trial is indeed constitutional the former president stands accused of inciting the storming of the

capitol that left 5 people dead last month. the newest book 56 the 44 a clear decision in a divided chamber donald trump will face a 2nd impeachment trial. pursued with a trial the senate vote affirmed that the trial was constitutional. stop the steel. to make their case the democratic prosecutor showed a video as evidence of trumped firing up his supporters ahead of the storming of the capitol on january 6th. can vote fraud and through it breaks up everything doesn't it when you catch somebody in a fraud you're allowed to go by very different rules you ask with a high crime and misdemeanor is under our constitution that's a high crime and misdemeanor. and head of the vote republicans had argued that

trump could not be convicted once out of office this was dismissed by the prosecution. their argument is that if you commit an impeachable offense in your last few weeks in office you do it with constitutional impunity you get away with it. so we're columns and lawyers also resorted to video are joined at the trial was politically motivated and divisive. on the impeachment dogs were to vote yes i would vote yes i would but i would go. with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for a great many americans see this process for exactly what it is a chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate donald trump from the american political scene. in a congress still reeling from last month's advance it is partisan politics that makes it very unlikely the prosecution will get the 2 thirds majority required in

the senate to convict trump. well what does it all mean so let's bring in did obvious u.s. analyst william glue croft how did this for a session of trumps a 2nd basemen trial go well we got a good preview of what the trial itself is going to be both sides arguing whether the trial itself is even constitutional to hold in the senate so are growing rather technical grounds we saw 4 hours of arguments in toll from both sides the house managers who which is they act as the prosecution here democrats from the house who are leading the prosecution case and the lawyers from donald trump's side now the trump defense is that it's unconstitutional as you heard in the report because doll trump is not in office anymore that it's politically motivated but of course democrats made both a constitutional case and there's also historical precedent for exactly this

situation that we're seeing trying a former government official once they're already out of office they have they made a technical constitutional legal case but also a very emotional case showing video from that day of january 6th trying to stoke in the minds of the senators especially republican senators who are much more skeptical much more on the side of donald trump. remind them of that anger and fear from that day jamie raskin a democrat from maryland who's leading this prosecution whose son died just a week before the those events on january 6th he had a very emotional statement to make and i think we can have a listen to it here are told her how sorry i was and i promised her that it would not be like this again the next time she came back to the capitol riff me and you know what she said she said dad. i don't want to come back to the company and.

of all the terrible brutal things i saw and i heard on that day and since then that one hit me the hardest. how much of an impact did this speech and the video of the that rested show have on the way because well it was a very emotional moment there's no denying that we just heard jamie raskin referring to her his daughter who was with her with him on the day of the attack again the family being together still mourning the loss of their son of of her brother just a week before those attacks and then on that very day the attack happening in the trump team the trump defense he was very very careful not to play down the events of january 6th in fact admitting and acknowledging that it was a horrible day for everyone they are questioning who's to blame for this that yes it was a terrible event and people need to be held accountable but donald trump is not the one responsible and as we saw by the vote just yesterday on whether this trial is

even constitutional with just 6 republicans breaking ranks and siding with democrats saying that it was gives us a good preview of what the outcome of the trial overall is probably going to be talking a preview of what's likely to fall along party lines in the end which makes impeachment unlikely. yeah or you're exactly conviction they need they need 17 democrats need 17 republican senators to join them to make that 67 out of 100 senator mark to convict a president and that is just unlikely going to happen you might have some republicans as we saw in the vote yesterday on constitutionality of crossing lines but generally republicans are very much still in trump's camp and what was very interesting about yesterday's vote because it because it was about constitutionality whether this trial was constitutional which so many republicans all but 6 saying that it wasn't constitutional and democrats saying that it was that can only mean one of 2 things either there's 2 very divergent opinions in

america right now about what the constitution even is and what america's constitutional democracy is or it says that republicans are putting party above the country i think that vote yesterday is quite an interesting reflection on the state of american politics today will improve thank you very much soldiers and me i'm on have raided the party headquarters off to see as myanmar's military tightens its grip on the headquarters of the national league for democracy political party were broken into and ransacked by security forces on tuesday but as the military steps up its campaign of intimidation against the ousted civilian leadership protesters took to the streets for a 5th consecutive day of nationwide demonstrations that's despite facing water cannon tear gas and rubber bullets in recent days and nights curfew is also in force. the united nations condemns the use of force against the protesters it's

calling for the release of aung san suu kyi and other elected leaders of the european parliament stating sanctions on myanmar by the e.u. foreign policy chief joseph burrell is urging a cautious approach. flu shoot of white rushing into measures that grew to really affect most vulnerable part of the population this often happens when you get restrictive measures at the end of the poor's among you poor sweet baby a consequence of. having gauge with. india the u.s. stralia and all should discuss this should do a should just today with the chinese for a minister. we all agree on the need to create responses to avoid toeing a fit to complete that can last quite a long time those of speaking that are for more let's bring in a man tungstens a freelance journalist but as a young on how likely is it the military will listen to this international pressure

. well i think it depends on how how consistently the pressure and it is applied and whether or not there are they have supporters in countries who are in the passive support of right so in the case of the range of crisis we saw. especially in the u.n. security council as well as an international effort to hold them accountable for the atrocities that were committed against the right jeff they have allies with china and russia as well as a couple of other countries and those of any efforts by the international community are not consistently applied then there there's always ways for them to continue to make money and continue to avoid accountability for the military have now raided the main opposition party headquarters and the protests on the other hand are continuing all the insides of peaceful solution. i mean

i think the civil disobedience movement is a really good place to look in terms of nonviolence nonviolent resistance and a way in which you know even without street protests necessarily people would be able to resist. the governance of the old terry regime. but at the same time you know the military's response to protests there is clearly escalating and in the intro you said earlier there were bullets used yesterday there was a protest a protester who was shot and was taken to the hospital and her doctor confirmed that it was a life well it went to her head. does the military using still have the backing of although authorities at the concert or block the police or local governments. so we have seen a number of people essentially defecting from the leadership of the military and so

there were quite a few videos of police officers who were there for the police line in order to join the army yes they were videos of police officers listen as they broke the police line in order to join protesters and there's also reports of police officers simply quitting the force and yesterday as well the mayor of adelaide resigned from his post but you've been covering this situation in myanmar for many many years but how do these protests compare to the previous. so i started covering the m.r. in 2008 and so largely the protests here have been there's been sort of rallies in support about sensitivity and against international condemnation regarding the issue as well as labor movement as well as free speech and internet access and pro internet access movements and nothing has ever compared to anything like this the sheer amount of people who are involved the level of solidarity that we're seeing

between different ethnic and religious groups as well as the fact that it's just the entire country right as opposed to a very small segment or very specific location. thank you very much i mean for young. thank you for having me. so look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today italy's material salvini says his right wing party is prepared to back a new government led by mario draghi but support from benin is crucial a drug use bits to become the prime minister after is that the calm to step down at the end of january. hungary's media regulator has denied an appeal by the country's most prominent independent radio station to keep its broadcasting license the station club radio claims the decision was politically motivated state media regulator has political ties to prague minister viktor orban. turkey has unveiled

an ambitious 10 year plan for its new space age and so doing missions to the moon satellite systems and launching turkish astronauts into space president joseph taught other worlds that the program would end to land a spacecraft on the moon by 2023. you're watching the news. why some women are finally in the driving seat in moscow we'll tell you why it's so . first let's get a round up now of some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic 2 new covert 19 variants have been identified in england one of them deemed a variant of concern u.k. government visors say both have similarities to south african and brazilian about barrett's south korea says it will greenlaw if they are. all people including those over the age of $65.00 it's the 1st vaccine to be granted approval in the country

and german chancellor angela merkel says she wants to extend the country's current coronavirus lockdown until march the government is meeting later today with the leaders of germany's 16 states to decide which was structure should remain in place when german leaders are meeting today to discuss the possibility of an extended lockdown they may want to look north for example of a place that seems to be getting things right the city of has made it through the winter months with exceptionally low numbers of covert 19 infections to w. went to find out the secret of its success. is it the cool baltic greece or the rather calm and collected mindset of people in the north of germany so far they have made it well through the covert crisis especially here in the city of boston infection numbers are currently lower than the german everett. to supernews we are disciplined northern germans are quite different from everyone

else. we're a bit more nordic and distance anyway maybe that's our secret recipe they be allowed to get so hard to try to bring it down they've put in rules so that it doesn't increase on the seniority does does the secrets timing might have been one reason very early on the city started testing more people than ever it masks quickly became mandatory in designated places and alcohol was spent on the streets earlier than in most places in germany. another reason might be him of our stocks mayor he is originally from denmark and had just started his political career when the pandemic hits before that he was an entry printer helpful when leading a team. minded people are very surprised when i said now we're going to shut everything down it took 15 minutes and then they started working all

together as a strong team and immediately put my words in action and i can understand that when the new mayor suddenly says we're going to shut everything down here. now he wants to do things differently again the mayor has suggested opening up businesses before everyone else as an example for germany. we would be very happy to offer ourselves as a pilot city that way we can look at which concepts can be implemented that's the search reason for the low number of infections could be the north specs the nation strategy relative to its inhabitants they have vaccinated more people than any other region in germany. and there is something else a few family doctors are gaining nationwide attention because they started vaccinating people in their own practice unique in germany because so far people had to go to vaccination centers to get the chap administering it has been doable

for doctors here contrary to popular belief the biotech pfizer vaccine can be stored at normal french temperature for a couple of days. my wish of course would be that when we have enough vaccine available in the near future that we will have proven with this model project it's possible the family doctors can do the vaccinations it has brought in this idea and let the family doctors take over. but germany is still missing vaccine doses until that problem is solved the country's north will have to continue counting on its discipline and maybe the fresh baltic breeze. in russia scores of jobs are forbidden to women with the government voicing concerns for the protection of childbearing abilities this year the ministry of labor has removed several 100 jobs from the list of banned work for women this is paving the way for a group of female pioneers in moscow's legendary subway system we're now taking the

wheel towards a more gender equal russia. women are finally in the driving seat and are pushing full speed ahead on gender equality in the russian capital. started working for the moscow metro almost 18 years ago at the time women were not allowed to operate subway trains in russia but arenas says for her it was worth the wait. this is my childhood dream i used to play with model ships and airplanes with the boys my father is a pilot so why the metro somehow it drew me in the fact that it's underground i guess it's like flying under the ground. before every shift irina gives the metro train she'll be driving a once over here you know was a station guard on the platform for years helping out passengers since january she's a driver now she tries to get a sense of each individual metro train. treat

each train like a person and i think each train has a soul to the feeling of driving the metro it's like pure happiness i'm happy when i'm driving. is proud to be one of the 1st 12 metro drivers after all the moscow subway is legendary the soviet government started building it in the 1930 s. calling it a palace for the people for commuting workers in the 1980 s. the government decided women had no place driving these trains they said the metro is too deep underground too loud and too dark for women and the vibration from the trains could damage their so-called childbearing function even now women drivers are only being deployed on the most modern trains and only operate one line that runs partially over ground despite the fact that they get the exact same training

as their male counterparts. in russia 1. 100 jobs remain off limits for women for example metal manufacturing like the work in the steel mill mining and drilling on an oil rig are still considered men's work russian lawmakers insist the restrictions are still relevant today. we treat women with care here in these tough jobs and hard labor are still seen as men's work in our society also women are mothers so providing for and taking care of their health and their reproductive functions is important that's why we used recommendations from doctors to determine factors that are harmful to women at work . is on her way to her next shift the 38 year old says the metro feels like a 2nd home to her especially now that she's in the driving seat and the arena is

optimistic the other band jobs won't be off limits to women forever. i'm sure they're working on it already the bands must be in place for a reason so the government must be taking care of them and i would tell other women to keep believing and hoping no matter what you want to become everything is possible. he already has her dream job and the next group of women will start training to become drivers soon but outside of these metro tunnels gender equality is still a long way off. and this is the usa the pilot who crashed the helicopter carrying a basketball star kobe bryant a year ago made a series of poor decisions to blindly fly into a wall of clouds where he became disoriented run to his daughter and 7 others were killed when the helicopter went down near los angeles. kobe bryant's hired helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff and cloudy conditions afterwards

investigators began unraveling the circumstances surrounding the accident. should the pilot have been flying in that in the fog. at that time i mean that's part of our investigation we look at weather and we'll have to determine that at some point now transport safety authorities have completed their inquiries their conclusion human error played a significant role the national transportation safety board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's decision to continue flight under visual flight rules into instrument meteorological conditions which resulted in the pilot spatial disorientation of wasit control the board noted that there had not been an adequate safety management system in place and the craft had been travelling at excessive speed investigators also suspected the pilot may have put himself under pressure to satisfy his client the helicopter was not equipped with

a flight recording device. 6 months ago disputed presidential election in a bill or reduce sparked widespread protests against longtime media example of a single more than 30000 people have been arrested in the brutal police crackdown that followed his controversial victory in august despite this protest so no sign of abating prominent. athletes like olympic basketball player. among those pushing for change she was jailed for 15 days for taking part of the protests she spoke to us from athens where she you know a place from where she supports the protest. thank you thank you thank you. thank you before i am an athlete i am a human rights human the i have a right by constitutional right crunching to. raised my opinion to not read was

something me being an athlete i it was time for me to to get a chance for the people that supported me throughout my career and i use my platform in my work and all those terrible certifying events have been. i can be quiet and there was not an option. when we did together we knew there is a chance that we are not an exception and the government can use us to show. to show people that anyone can be in jail. my father dropped me off. and i was racking my leg each of my kids have managed shoulder and when i time around those 2 policemen and they said they are there to arrest me for participating in protests i mean you literally couldn't that's very very small

on my 2nd day there they have taken everything from us this taken measures that you can literally the only place you can sit is kind of thing. to turn off the hot water pollute was lashon. in 15 days i was there they never took a cig shower i didn't believe till the last minute because they didn't release me the press to do it to me they put me in the car the only way i would ever lack when i got out of that car my mom my dad and i would like for you a little bit when one is just and i love that we're more than just one and just being using. support that apply here if you would have told me i'm going to be arrested then all this happened right away but i don't regret anything that has happened to me during my career i learned their negative you've got to look at the positives that shape your lie. and this is where

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does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the covert special monday to friday on t.w. . operation vaccination a huge task unparalleled in history and the challenges involved a massive. many just chill nations have lucic you and me vaccine doses to be to live in peace here but what about the poor countries. i think this idea that you know really it we will protect ourselves 1st and then we worry about other.